| Title |
Wade, Frederick J. |
| Date |
December 1841 -ca. 1918 |
| Description |
Frederick J. Wade, born December 1841 in England, was a later 19th-century Philadelphia manufacturer of metallic signs and
general lithographer. Wade immigrated to Philadelphia on May 26, 1854 from Liverpool, England on board the "Manchester." By
1863 Wade worked in the city as a lithographer and by ca. 1873 established his own firm at 230 South Fifth Street. Smith produced
the 1875 historic prints "Philadelphia in 1702" and Philadelphia in the Olden Time," church, views, certificates and labels.
His firm was active until 1886 and he worked as a lithographer until ca. 1900.
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Wade was married to Margaret (b. ca. 1840) with whom he had two daughters. From ca. 1860 to ca. 1900, Wade predominately lived
in Center City on the 300 block of Cypress Street (Ward 4); first at his own residence at 306 Cypress with his family and
in 1900 as a widowed boarder at 310 Cypress. In the late 1880s he resided at 310 Aberdeen Street (West Philadelphia.). By
1910 Wade returned to West Philadelphia and resided at the "Old Mans Home "at Saunders and Powelton streets. He was listed
in city directories at that address until 1918.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 |
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Last, 236 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories 1863-1918 (intermittently) |
